The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.
Weitere Zitate von Italo Calvino
Zum Autor"What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial."
"Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."
"Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing."